Sorry for the late reply. Totally forgot about this post and fortunately saw it again. Ill go check those out asap. Do any of you maybe have contact details of someone there that I can tag along with or ask for advice. Even just a name and surname for a facebook invite will work.

If you don't get anywhere you can always check out one of the climbing walls (mission cliffs in SF iirc). When I was there, ahem, a number of years ago I got some details of where to go. They're really friendly stateside anyway. If you stay in Camp 4 in yosemite there's a notice board for climbers looking for partners, gear etc. I got chatting to some guys while waiting in line for a the ranger hut at the campsite to open and by the time I'd finished setting my tent up, someone had already come up to ask if I was the South African looking for a climbing partner - we ended up climbing together for the next week or two.

\"When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you\". - Oom Nietzsche